Jonathan Schwartz is probably the highest profile individual to blog as CEO of Sun Microsystems, a Fortune 500 company. But that is not what this article is about. It is instructive to note how he leverages his blog to communicate with share-holders and Sun customers.

This is the list of top 10 best things about Scott not being the CEO of Sun Microsystems (as said by Scott himself at JavaOne) :

Work anywhere from a portable inflatable office.

Sun Microsystems announced plans to cut up to 13 percent of its work force, in its first major restructuring effort under new CEO Jonathan Schwartz.

The common symptom of the problem is that Apache web server suddenly fails to load as a service (on windows) or even from command line. The error message from log is as follows: FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate -2103443420 bytes [Thu Jun 01 23:57:21 2006] [crit] master_main: create child process failed. Exiting.